Farmer Sultana Almeida Souza inspects the extent of the damage in her field on the banks of the Tapará river, in Santa Maria do Tapara, Brazil. Between September and November 2023, the Amazon experienced an unprecedented drought. Fires ravaged flora and fauna, and many communities were cut off from the rest of the world, ?world, as to navigate they rely on waterways that had dried up.

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